Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Katealemke/Archive

09 May 2015

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I'm bringing this to SPI mostly to check for the Jesusaurus and Smaikimm (although I somewhat doubt that he's a sock) accounts than the other one, which is an obvious WP:DUCK. All of these accounts have one thing in common: they're here to edit and create articles relating to Austin Mardon. These three accounts are responsible for creating and editing the following: The Insanity Machine, Financial Stability for the Disabled, and Tea with the Mad Hatter. There are some other, stale SPAs that I found on Mardon's article history, but most of them are from so long ago that they're long past stale and abandoned so I don't think that they're really worth looking into. I will list them here in parentheses just so that there is a record that their edits were noticed. If anyone wants to add them I don't have a problem with that, but I don't think that anyone will return to them. (User:NintendoFan2014, User:GameKyu, User:Bloodiedhalo, User:CatherineM62)

I have to admit that I'm more getting meatpuppet vibes from this than sockpuppetry (other than the obvious sock account) and part of me kind of wonders if this is a case of paid editing because the articles do kind of come across as a little promotional. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:37, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't think that a sleeper check is really necessary here since the accounts seem to be used pretty quickly after they're opened. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:37, 9 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The sandbox entry here seems to back up the paid editing suspicions. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡)  04:39, 9 May 2015 (UTC)

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I am the account holder for jesaurus. The accounts involved are held by different people. We are editing pages relevant to Austin Mardon because we are members of a student project, we are not paid to do editorial work. If the wikipedia pages for the books came across as promotional, we are open to change the connotations and wordings of the description — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.52.149.74 (talk) 18:15, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - - IP claims that those are different people, but the similarity is striking.  Vanjagenije   (talk)  23:46, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * The following accounts are ✅:
 * The following accounts are technically but probably meat, particularly Jesaurus:
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 01:59, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing case with no further action. Given the edits performed by the accounts, I do not see any evidence of malice. Katealemke is most likely a confused newbie who hopefully will not open any more accounts. Someguy1221 (talk) 04:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 01:59, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing case with no further action. Given the edits performed by the accounts, I do not see any evidence of malice. Katealemke is most likely a confused newbie who hopefully will not open any more accounts. Someguy1221 (talk) 04:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)
 * --Bbb23 (talk) 01:59, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Closing case with no further action. Given the edits performed by the accounts, I do not see any evidence of malice. Katealemke is most likely a confused newbie who hopefully will not open any more accounts. Someguy1221 (talk) 04:27, 23 May 2015 (UTC)